Equilibrium Exchange Rates and Supply-Side Performance

Gianluca Benigno and Christoph Thoenissen

Economic Journal, 2003, vol. 113, issue 486, C103-C124

Abstract: We develop a two-country, optimising, sticky prices and sticky wages model of real exchange rate determination in the new open macroeconomics tradition to analyse the interaction between supply-side behaviour, market structure and the real exchange rate. For a UK-euro area calibration, supply-side improvements to total factor productivity (TFP) or the degree of monopolistic competition in the goods and labour markets result in a depreciation of the real exchange rate. When TFP increases in the traded goods sector, a depreciation of the terms of trade offsets the appreciation of the relative price of non-traded goods, contrasting with the Balassa-Samuelson proposition. Copyright Royal Economic Society 2003

Date: 2003
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